We will mark four segments of the state line, and use interviews, photographs and moving images to define our mission. Meanwhile we will give firsthand impressions of marginal farmland, isolated communities, and local histories that have been able to stay off the radar from the rest of the world. This OK/ TX border would appear less than perfect for a Greenbelt Meridian, yet it is in reality tailor made for our project. We are dedicated to putting back a continuous path around the globe ... No roads, no fences, No Man's Land, No Shoes Land as a symbol of hope for the Earth carried forever into the future.
Date: Nov 26-28, 2014
Where: Erick, Texola, Sweetwater, Cheynne, Reydon, and Elk City in Oklahoma
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| Map of 100 meridian west (OK/TX border). |
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| compass reading |
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Our coordinates were not exact enough to pinpoint the 100 meridian at this location. The road intersected our proposed Meridian at sharp angle, which was disorienting from our perspective. We started to map a line across the street from north to south .
Eyes are the most valuable tools for alignment along our 100 degrees longitude.
Eventually a truck travelling quite fast tore apart the line marking the greenbelt meridian, but the road was not well traveled. As with other stops we made in our two days travelling, we collected visual data and were tolerated by the traffic.
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Petitioning Department of the Interior, Barack Obama, President of the United States to designate the 100th Meridian at the Oklahoma and Texas border as a national monument and the first section of a global Greenbelt Meridian.
Petitioning Department of the Interior, Barack Obama, President of the United States to designate the 100th Meridian at the Oklahoma and Texas border as a national monument and the first section of a global Greenbelt Meridian.
The only spot we found that had a sign posted for travelers coming into Oklahoma. This is considered part of the Black Kettle National Grassland, on the map.
A single point on the Meridian, near Reydon, OK.
A family coming to visit a brother in Reydon, OK for Thanksgiving all stopped at the stateline for pictures. They kindly obliged us a photograph on the Greenbelt Meridian, to define an otherwise featureless segment.
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